Usage of do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate orders in a Swedish community hospital – patient involvement, documentation and compliance by Emilie Bertilsson, Birgitta Semark, Kristina Schildmeijer, Anders Bremer, Jörg Carlsson

“…Methods All patients who died in Kalmar County Hospital during January 1, 2016 until December 31, 2016 were included. …”
Get full text

Assessing heart rate variability in type 1 diabetes mellitus—Psychosocial stress a possible confounder by Eva Kristiansen, Pär Wanby, Karin Åkesson, Peter Blomstrand, Lars Brudin, Johanna Thegerström

Get full text

Experiences by patients and health professionals of a multidisciplinary intervention for long-term orofacial pain by Nilsson H, Samuelsson M, Ekdahl S, Halling Y, Öster A, Perseius KI

“…Håkan Nilsson,1 Mats Samuelsson,2 Susanne Ekdahl,3 Yvonne Halling,4 Anders Öster,4 Kent-Inge Perseius2,3 1Department of Stomatognathic Physiology, Faculty of Odontology, Malmö University, and Unit of Stomatognathic Physiology, Specialist Dental Centre, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, 2Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 3Nyckeln Competence Center for Pedagogics in Healthcare, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, 4Unit of Stomatognathic Physiology, Specialist Dental Centre, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden Abstract: The aim of the present study was to describe patients’ and health professionals’ experiences of a multidisciplinary stress-focused clinical evaluation with prolonged engagement as an intervention for patients with long-term orofacial pain. …”
Get full text

Trivial or Troublesome: Experience with Coronary Heart Disease Medication from the Patient’s Perspective by Östbring MJ, Hellström L, Mårtensson J

“…Malin Johansson Östbring,1,2 Lina Hellström,1,2 Jan Mårtensson3 1Pharmaceutical Department Region Kalmar County, Kalmar, Sweden; 2eHealth Institute, Department of Medicine and Optometry, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; 3Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, SwedenCorrespondence: Malin Johansson ÖstbringPharmaceutical Department Region Kalmar County, Building 2, House 2, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar SE-391 85, SwedenTel +46 70 289 32 55Email Malin.johansson.ostbring@regionkalmar.seBackground: Living with coronary heart disease (CHD) usually means being prescribed several medications to help prevent new cardiac events. …”
Get full text

Is insomnia associated with self-reported health and life satisfaction in cardiac arrest survivors? A cross-sectional survey by Patrik Hellström, Johan Israelsson, Amanda Hellström, Carina Hjelm, Anders Broström, Kristofer Årestedt

Get full text

Measurement properties of the Minimal Insomnia Symptom Scale (MISS) among cardiac arrest survivors – A Rasch evaluation study by Patrik Hellström, Johan Israelsson, Erik Blennow Nordström, Carina Hjelm, Anders Broström, Peter Hagell, Kristofer Årestedt

Get full text

Two-peaked increase of serum myosin heavy chain-α after triathlon suggests heart muscle cell death by Tom Danielsson, Hendrik Schreyer, Hanna Woksepp, Therese Johansson, Patrick Bergman, Alf Månsson, Jörg Carlsson

Get full text

Perfectionism in eating disorders: Are long-term outcomes influenced by extent and changeability in initial perfectionism? by Suzanne Petersson, David Clinton, Lars Brundin, Kent-Inge Perseius, Claes Norring

Get full text

Lyme Neuroborreliosis—Significant Local Variations in Incidence within a Highly Endemic Region in Sweden by Per-Olof Nilsson, Ivar Tjernberg

“…The distribution of LNB cases within Kalmar County, Sweden was investigated using GIS. In total, 272 cases of definite LNB were confirmed with an average yearly incidence of 7.8/100,000. …”
Get full text

Response times in rural areas for emergency medical services, fire and rescue services and voluntary first responders during out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by Anders Svensson, Bengt Nilsson, Emelie Lantz, Anders Bremer, Kristofer Årestedt, Johan Israelsson

Get full text

Associations between self-care advice and healing time in patients with venous leg ulcer– a Swedish registry-based study by Marcus Rosenburg, Hanna Tuvesson, Gunilla Lindqvist, Lars Brudin, Cecilia Fagerström

Get full text

Touch and relate: body experience among staff in habilitation services by Görel Råsmark, Bengt Richt, Carl Edvard Rudebeck

Get full text

Tick-borne co-infections in Europe: Clinical conundrums by Lisa Labbé Sandelin, Helena H. Askling

Get full text

New Research Programme: Crisis, Conflict and Climate: Societal Change in Scandinavia 300–700 CE by Kerstin Lidén, Gunilla Eriksson, Sven Kalmring, Sven Isaksson, Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay, Helena Viktor

Get full text

Plasma protein profiling reveals dynamic immunomodulatory changes in multiple sclerosis patients during pregnancy by Georgia Papapavlou Lingehed, Sandra Hellberg, Jesse Huang, Mohsen Khademi, Ingrid Kockum, Hanna Carlsson, Ivar Tjernberg, Maria Svenvik, Jonas Lind, Marie Blomberg, Magnus Vrethem, Johan Mellergård, Mika Gustafsson, Maria C. Jenmalm, Tomas Olsson, Jan Ernerudh

Get full text

Diagnostic patterns of serum inflammatory protein markers in children with Lyme neuroborreliosis by Tobias Fredriksson, Lars Brudin, Anna J. Henningsson, Barbro H. Skogman, Ivar Tjernberg

Get full text

Oral health literacy among migrant mothers in Sweden. A qualitative study by Elena Shmarina, Malin Stensson, SANT-Network, Brittmarie Jacobsson

“…The mothers had entered Sweden from 2015 onwards and had been resettled in Kalmar County, Sweden. Their native language was Somalian, Dari or Arabic. …”
Get full text

Discordance of PIK3CA and TP53 mutations between breast cancer brain metastases and matched primary tumors by Anna Thulin, Carola Andersson, Elisabeth Werner Rönnerman, Shahin De Lara, Chaido Chamalidou, Arnd Schoenfeld, Anikó Kovács, Henrik Fagman, Fredrik Enlund, Barbro K. Linderholm

Get full text

Environmental antimicrobial resistance gene detection from wild bird habitats using two methods: A commercially available culture-independent qPCR assay and culture of indicator ba... by Christina A. Ahlstrom, Laura C. Scott, Hanna Woksepp, Jonas Bonnedahl, Andrew M. Ramey

Get full text

Grief reactions in relation to professional and social support among family members of persons who died from sudden cardiac arrest: A longitudinal survey study by Nina Carlsson, Anette Alvariza, Lena Axelsson, Anders Bremer, Kristofer Årestedt

Get full text